Associations to the word «Recension»

Wiktionary

RECENSION, noun. A critical revision of a text.
RECENSION, noun. A text established by critical revision.
RECENSION, noun. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope